The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend:
Nine New Nasty UX Truths by Antoine Valot. First article lies here. Thanks 2 UX News New UX
Game UI design: the mechanics of fun experiences
How to design a better bottom navbar?
🚀Free UX writing and Content Design course
Mobile Design Essentials: Cart Summary Page
Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:
Principle of Closure in Visual Design. People tend to fill in blanks to perceive a complete object
The Practice of Customer-Journey Management. User journeys should be managed like products — by people and teams with specialized, journey-dedicated roles who continually research, measure, optimize, and orchestrate the experience
🎥 Remote Usability Testing Costs. Comparing the budgets needed for different kinds of qualitative user research
🎥 Should Experienced Designers Go Back to College? If experienced designers want to learn about psychology and how it applies to user experience, should they get a psychology degree, or is it better to learn on your own?
5 lessons you can learn from Pirates of Caribbean to become a top designer
Beginners: Design documentation - starting our DesignOps journey
Parsing: The Magnificent Trufflepigs. Exploring the UX design of this adventure indie-game and how it can be improved
Case Study: Designing for Healthcare and how to create paradigm-shifting products
User Journey Mapping: Journey of Ordering an Ice Cream
💵 3 user types and how to deal with them during interviews
💵 Balancing user experience and business-centered design. The importance designing solutions for the needs of everyone
💵 7 Tips for UI/UX Design Bootcamp From A Mentor
💵 How to clean quantitative user data — a visual guide. How learning 100 lines of code can save you hours of fixing user data spreadsheets
💵 How Spotify could reinvent the radio
UX Horn #gamification #UI #design #prototyping #navigation #course #uxwriting #NNG #CJM #process #beginners #documentaion #parse #case #interview #tips #guide #data
Productive week and take care of yourself 🍀
Nine New Nasty UX Truths by Antoine Valot. First article lies here. Thanks 2 UX News New UX
Game UI design: the mechanics of fun experiences
How to design a better bottom navbar?
🚀Free UX writing and Content Design course
Mobile Design Essentials: Cart Summary Page
Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:
Principle of Closure in Visual Design. People tend to fill in blanks to perceive a complete object
The Practice of Customer-Journey Management. User journeys should be managed like products — by people and teams with specialized, journey-dedicated roles who continually research, measure, optimize, and orchestrate the experience
🎥 Remote Usability Testing Costs. Comparing the budgets needed for different kinds of qualitative user research
🎥 Should Experienced Designers Go Back to College? If experienced designers want to learn about psychology and how it applies to user experience, should they get a psychology degree, or is it better to learn on your own?
5 lessons you can learn from Pirates of Caribbean to become a top designer
Beginners: Design documentation - starting our DesignOps journey
Parsing: The Magnificent Trufflepigs. Exploring the UX design of this adventure indie-game and how it can be improved
Case Study: Designing for Healthcare and how to create paradigm-shifting products
User Journey Mapping: Journey of Ordering an Ice Cream
💵 3 user types and how to deal with them during interviews
💵 Balancing user experience and business-centered design. The importance designing solutions for the needs of everyone
💵 7 Tips for UI/UX Design Bootcamp From A Mentor
💵 How to clean quantitative user data — a visual guide. How learning 100 lines of code can save you hours of fixing user data spreadsheets
💵 How Spotify could reinvent the radio
UX Horn #gamification #UI #design #prototyping #navigation #course #uxwriting #NNG #CJM #process #beginners #documentaion #parse #case #interview #tips #guide #data
Productive week and take care of yourself 🍀
Medium
Nine New Nasty UX Truths
Hard-won insights that nobody says out loud.
Stephen Anderson offers an alternative to the Customer Journey Map - the arches, loops and territories approach from games. Many services and products are non-linear, so a familiar map is not always suitable for them. Thanks 2 PDigest
5 great reasons a UXer should learn code
When UX designs for difficult tasks must be user friendly
5 common design start up mistakes and how to avoid them
Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:
Guide: Designing empty states in complex applications
UX-Maturity stage 2: Limited
🎥 Separate UX backlogs in Agile
Book Review: Articulating Design Decisions
Opinion: How to be really good at losing
💵 Heuristic evaluation vs. user testing
💵 The power of the little (red) dot: encouraging users to explore further
💵 8 Tips to Design Better Data Visualization
💵 UX Research characteristics: an analysis of 100 open jobs
💵 DNA of a UX Writer: 6 qualities from companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix
💵 Data privacy laws are good for UX design
#CJM #framework #mistakes #NNG #guide #maturity #process #backlog #book #opinion #heuristic #patterns #data #vizualization #uxwriting #privacy
@uxhorn_eng
5 great reasons a UXer should learn code
When UX designs for difficult tasks must be user friendly
5 common design start up mistakes and how to avoid them
Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:
Guide: Designing empty states in complex applications
UX-Maturity stage 2: Limited
🎥 Separate UX backlogs in Agile
Book Review: Articulating Design Decisions
Opinion: How to be really good at losing
💵 Heuristic evaluation vs. user testing
💵 The power of the little (red) dot: encouraging users to explore further
💵 8 Tips to Design Better Data Visualization
💵 UX Research characteristics: an analysis of 100 open jobs
💵 DNA of a UX Writer: 6 qualities from companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix
💵 Data privacy laws are good for UX design
#CJM #framework #mistakes #NNG #guide #maturity #process #backlog #book #opinion #heuristic #patterns #data #vizualization #uxwriting #privacy
@uxhorn_eng
Medium
When Customer Journeys Don’t Work: Arcs, Loops, & Terrain
Frustrated by the *linear sequence* of customer journeys? I think there’s another approach we can try: Arcs, Loops, and Terrain.
The Ultimate Guide to UX prototyping: what tools to use, how to get started and what not to do
Usability vs preference — what’s more important
What are diary studies? When and how to use them
How to build a compelling UX Research Roadmap
Psychology of Design for Amazing UX
6 tips for collecting customer feedback
Four principles for (respectfully) designing with user data
Using Apple Fitness+
Stanislav Stankovic describes a balanced approach to creating user or player ratings. Thanks 2 pdigest
Use a custom cursor to improve the UX of your website
Text Resizing - Flexible Components for Improved Accessibility
Characteristics of a good UX according to Google
🇪🇸 UX en un Design Sprint
Case study:
How we leveraged a cognitive bias called the Peak-End rule — to build an experience that increased user satisfaction to an all-time high
Improving train ticket booking experience
Redesign an internet service provider app
#guide #prototyping #usability #methods #diary #psychology #feedback #data #game #accessibility #process #case #bias #redesign
@uxhorn_eng
Usability vs preference — what’s more important
What are diary studies? When and how to use them
How to build a compelling UX Research Roadmap
Psychology of Design for Amazing UX
6 tips for collecting customer feedback
Four principles for (respectfully) designing with user data
Using Apple Fitness+
Stanislav Stankovic describes a balanced approach to creating user or player ratings. Thanks 2 pdigest
Use a custom cursor to improve the UX of your website
Text Resizing - Flexible Components for Improved Accessibility
Characteristics of a good UX according to Google
🇪🇸 UX en un Design Sprint
Case study:
How we leveraged a cognitive bias called the Peak-End rule — to build an experience that increased user satisfaction to an all-time high
Improving train ticket booking experience
Redesign an internet service provider app
#guide #prototyping #usability #methods #diary #psychology #feedback #data #game #accessibility #process #case #bias #redesign
@uxhorn_eng
Medium
The Ultimate Guide to UX Prototyping: What Tools To Use, How To Get Started and What Not To Do
UX prototyping is a way to explore ideas in an interactive environment, typically using software that lets you prototype the interface and…
Rows and Columns. Part 1: Jump-starting Analysis Using Spreadsheets & Part 2: Using Formulas to Tally Data
Do people use all available response options
Designing Accordions: Best practices
A comprehensive guide to AI assistant design
Francesca Valentini has compiled a list of design games and tests, many have been known for a long time, but the selection is good. Thanks 2 pdigest
Guide to human-centered product design and delivery
Tools to make a great product design process
Demystifying remote user testing at Meesho
Interesting: From nearly $1 million in debt to a household name — James Dyson dishes on his biggest hits and misses
Opinion:
Let’s talk about User Research project plans
What Is a Good User Experience?
Beginners:
An Introduction to UX Research
The ultimate beginners guide to UX research in 2022 (From Google & IDEO UX researchers)
Why understanding business objectives is imperative to good design
Books that helped me become a better writer that have (almost) nothing to do with writing
So you’re a non-native English UX writer. What now?
💵 A survival guide to user interviews
💵 Figma Guide for Auto Layout & Constraints
💵 Design insights, thanks to the pandemic. Cognitive leaks, changing user expectations and improved design awareness
💵 Deathloop — UI in videogames. Looking at how AAA games handle User Interfaces
#excel #data #analysis #feedback #prototyping #guide #game #AI #tools #process #methods #interesting #opinion #strategy #beginners #uxwriting #figma #design #patterns
@uxhorn_eng
Do people use all available response options
Designing Accordions: Best practices
A comprehensive guide to AI assistant design
Francesca Valentini has compiled a list of design games and tests, many have been known for a long time, but the selection is good. Thanks 2 pdigest
Guide to human-centered product design and delivery
Tools to make a great product design process
Demystifying remote user testing at Meesho
Interesting: From nearly $1 million in debt to a household name — James Dyson dishes on his biggest hits and misses
Opinion:
Let’s talk about User Research project plans
What Is a Good User Experience?
Beginners:
An Introduction to UX Research
The ultimate beginners guide to UX research in 2022 (From Google & IDEO UX researchers)
Why understanding business objectives is imperative to good design
Books that helped me become a better writer that have (almost) nothing to do with writing
So you’re a non-native English UX writer. What now?
💵 A survival guide to user interviews
💵 Figma Guide for Auto Layout & Constraints
💵 Design insights, thanks to the pandemic. Cognitive leaks, changing user expectations and improved design awareness
💵 Deathloop — UI in videogames. Looking at how AAA games handle User Interfaces
#excel #data #analysis #feedback #prototyping #guide #game #AI #tools #process #methods #interesting #opinion #strategy #beginners #uxwriting #figma #design #patterns
@uxhorn_eng
Uxmatters
Rows and Columns, Part 1: Jump-starting Analysis Using Spreadsheets :: UXmatters
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
Taxonomy of research reports. How should work with research data
9 blogs every UX Researcher should start reading right now
The UX Workflow: The ultimate guide to tools, processes, and the 6 steps of UX workflows
5 quick tips for giving and receiving design feedback
Informative Architecture and VUI
Mega list of resources for UX-Writing
🔈If podcasts if your thing, try writers in tech podcast (an interview with industry leaders)
Interesting: Tell us what you really think - Jared Spool on democratizing research
Opinion: You can’t always get what you quant - bringing numbers to life through user research
Beginners: Customer Experience Metrics for surveys cheatsheet
Case Study:
User Research by Shashank Venkat
SLO Transit Redesign
💵 Landing Page Check List
#data #tips #guide #process #feedback #IA #VUI #uxwriting #podcast #interesting #opinion #beginners #survey #case #LP #redesign
@uxhorn_eng
9 blogs every UX Researcher should start reading right now
The UX Workflow: The ultimate guide to tools, processes, and the 6 steps of UX workflows
5 quick tips for giving and receiving design feedback
Informative Architecture and VUI
Mega list of resources for UX-Writing
🔈If podcasts if your thing, try writers in tech podcast (an interview with industry leaders)
Interesting: Tell us what you really think - Jared Spool on democratizing research
Opinion: You can’t always get what you quant - bringing numbers to life through user research
Beginners: Customer Experience Metrics for surveys cheatsheet
Case Study:
User Research by Shashank Venkat
SLO Transit Redesign
💵 Landing Page Check List
#data #tips #guide #process #feedback #IA #VUI #uxwriting #podcast #interesting #opinion #beginners #survey #case #LP #redesign
@uxhorn_eng
Medium
Taxonomy of research reports. How should work with research data?
This topic is one of the first steps in the democratization of research processes in your company. I will talk about the taxonomy (or in…
What is grounded theory? Unearthing insights in qualitative research. How to find dynamite theories in large amounts of data
Usability audit (heuristic evaluation). Getting into the user’s skin.
How engineering impacts UX and UX impacts engineering
Nacho Parietti offers three models for describing user behavior that will make an MVP more successful. They rely on the relationship of behavior and values to people. Thanks 2 pdigest
Spotify Car Thing: A Heuristic Evaluation
Graham F. Scott talks about rethinking site information architecture for Shopify developers. Thanks 2 pdigest
Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:
Study Guide: Design-Pattern Guidelines
When to Use Context Methods: Field and Diary Studies
🎥 Contextual Inquiry Pitfalls
🎥 Overcoming Service Blueprinting Frustrations
Opinion:
It’s not just UX, CX, or WX… Enterprises need to focus on TX!
Is radical product thinking the future of product design
Beginners: 5 books to improve your UX-research skills
Interesting: The world map that reboots your brain. Most maps grossly misrepresent the size of countries and contribute to confusion
Design:
How to utilize user-personas to gain the maximum efficiency for your UX designs
Design for context
Case Study:
ForeverNest. Allowing first-time homebuyers to relate to other people’s experiences through the form of articles, videos, and podcasts
An easy way to donate clothes to the needy
#data #qualitative #heuristic #automotive #audit #NNG #guide #methods #video #blueprint #diary #opinion #terms #beginners #interesting #design #persona #context #case
@uxhorn_eng
Usability audit (heuristic evaluation). Getting into the user’s skin.
How engineering impacts UX and UX impacts engineering
Nacho Parietti offers three models for describing user behavior that will make an MVP more successful. They rely on the relationship of behavior and values to people. Thanks 2 pdigest
Spotify Car Thing: A Heuristic Evaluation
Graham F. Scott talks about rethinking site information architecture for Shopify developers. Thanks 2 pdigest
Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:
Study Guide: Design-Pattern Guidelines
When to Use Context Methods: Field and Diary Studies
🎥 Contextual Inquiry Pitfalls
🎥 Overcoming Service Blueprinting Frustrations
Opinion:
It’s not just UX, CX, or WX… Enterprises need to focus on TX!
Is radical product thinking the future of product design
Beginners: 5 books to improve your UX-research skills
Interesting: The world map that reboots your brain. Most maps grossly misrepresent the size of countries and contribute to confusion
Design:
How to utilize user-personas to gain the maximum efficiency for your UX designs
Design for context
Case Study:
ForeverNest. Allowing first-time homebuyers to relate to other people’s experiences through the form of articles, videos, and podcasts
An easy way to donate clothes to the needy
#data #qualitative #heuristic #automotive #audit #NNG #guide #methods #video #blueprint #diary #opinion #terms #beginners #interesting #design #persona #context #case
@uxhorn_eng
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